Hello folks, I've tried several of the Precise Puppy Beta's and none seem to load the desktop. I get a black screen and an mouse arrow but no taskbar and it won't respond to keyboard rebooting from the Live CD.

Boots to desktop
Some desktop program icons missing or half visible
no items visible in menus
Some program icons in taskbar, but not all
The icons/entry's that should be showing in menu and taskbar. You can put mouse pointer at the location where they should be and left click will run the program that should have an icon/entry at that location.

Seems to be using Nouveau graphic driver.
Will not get to desktop if you select Vesa driver with Xorgwizard.

I wonder if it makes any difference choosing 24-bit rather than 16-bit color depth. Earlier JWM versions have had a problem in this area, I think the main trouble was with 16-bit.

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, change the "16" in two places to "24".

It is more likely to be a nouveau issue in bigpup's case I believe. The symptoms are near identical to drblock2's (incidentally, it's with his help I came up with the nouveau_unload script in slacko development). I reckon the only way around this is to have it written in the release notes because nouveau has advanced well in recent times and it would be a shame to leave it out. Xorgwizard is *supposed* to work with it, I haven't tested this in Precise. At a guess nouveau would support 95% of nvidias quite well. Works fine on my 4 cards ranging from an old vanta to an 8300GS.

Those having trouble with nouveau (ie nvidia cards) could try puppy pfix=ram nouveau.modeset=0 at CD boot or on the kernel line._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

Straight to desktop - working
Trying to download xaralx with package manager (I also tried unsucessfully with 5.2.71) . . . The ppm is very slow (I almost gave up) but I now have xaralx . . . hooray _________________YinYana AI Buddhism

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz

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That's better performance than the nvidia-73 proprietary driver, although the card was in a different machine testing an old wary at that time.

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I have just compiled the nv driver and am about to test on this machine.

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Mixed success with nv
While it does work I couldn't get my desired resolution without manual intervention, however, mine is an obscure monitor with 1360x768 res, norm is 1366x768. Nouveau_unload worked as expected and rebooted to a vesa desktop. xorgwizard wouldn't select nv so I deleted xorg.conf and ran xorgwizard-automatic from the prompt.

Hi Barry
Do you have a version of kernel sources for the non-pae kernel?
I've looked on your kernel pages and there isn't one there....
I've tried to compile a driver and it won't load due to a symbol mismatch which suggests that different kernel sources are needed.
Thanks
peebee_________________ LxPup = Puppy + LXDE

Download and activate the ubuntu-universe repo that is not included in 5.2.7x. Has most of these.
BTW you may want to inactivate one of the activated repos since PPM has trouble handling more than 5._________________== Here is how to solve yourLinux problems fast ==

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